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John ed Heidi Show on a Monday. Excited for a whole new week.
It's supposed to be little warmer this week, which I kind of like.
I'm not a big fan of the cold, cold, cold, cold weather.
So for those of you who really really like this stuff, I don't
know, you got it? You can have mine too. And here's the
other thing I don't understand. I see people, like last week when it
was way too cold to be outside, I see people out for walks.
What I don't even go for a walk when it's sixty five and sunny.
I can't imagine going for a walk when it's twenty below zero. But again,
if if that's who you are and that's what you love, I guess
you are you are in for a treat when it gets chilly. But I
think we're supposed to have a pretty decent week this week. We'll keep on
listening for an update from Sioux fallsweather dot com. And we've got an update
from Brent Baker. We had gone through like a big long list of things
and we wrapped that up last week. It was realtor terms and terms I
had to do with real estate. Today we're gonna chat with them about something
completely different, So I don't know what, but something. We'll do that
here in a bit. Thank you for listening to the John ed Heidi Show.
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com. Thank you so much for listening to the John ed Heidi Show on
a Monday. We've got Brent Baker in the studio. How are you,
sir? I am warm as long as i'm indoors. Yeah, this time
of year gets a little chilly outside, but the good news is we're always
nice and cozy inside. So we're going to talk today. Brent is a
real estate professional with clients First Group at Keller Williams. And how long have
you been a realtor? By the way, A long time? So do
you have any idea how many homes you've helped buy? And I don't.
I really don't. I should? I should? You know, go through
and figure that out. Yeah, I started when I was ten. Well,
he's been doing it a while and you are a trusted voice when it
comes to that. Not only does Brent advertise with us here at the radio,
but he's also our realtor when we bought a home, when we sold
a home, we worked with Brent and we have him come in. We
try to have you every money. It doesn't always work out every Monday,
but we try to have you every money to talk about something to do with
the real estate market. And today we're going to kind of go through some
things about empowering home buyer clients with disabilities. And this is something that when
you're looking for a real estate professional somebody to help you. Of course I
suggest people just you know, make it an easy call and call and talk
to you. But these are things that they should be looking for to make
sure they're working with somebody that's going to take good care of them, right
correct. Disabilities come in a variety of types. Of course, you know,
I had a grandfather who was blind in one eye due to a farm
accident. Other family members disabled either by illness or accidents. And we have
this common thing that, oh, when we see a ramp or you know,
doors have to be a certain width in commercial buildings, also for just
public transportation, but also when you look in go into a nursing home or
a hospital and look at where the light switches are in the bathrooms, they're
at a different height. Everything has to be configured for people in a wheelchair,
and you know, wheelchairs take up space, so you need wider doors,
you need room to turn it. But that doesn't mean that they're always
limited. I have a past client. I tease him at church. You
would think he would be really clumsy with that wheelchair. I have seen him
shoot that through some pretty narrow openings. Nice ye, pretty good speed.
But there are some laws that I suppose when people are building a home and
when they're putting things together. But are there laws as far as like for
a realtor that you guys need to be aware of when you're as a realtor
for that particular category. Not so much laws, it's really you want to
be aware of what's out there and what benefits and really ask questions of that
person needing that facility. You know, what are your limitations? Some people
you know don't walk well, so they use a walker. I have a
past client who you know has fallen and done a lot of bodily damage for
her having the ability to move around just in bigger spaces in general. But
also it's the height of the light switch. It's no step entry from her
garage into her house. Sometimes we need automatic lights because their hands don't work
anymore, so you need those motion sensor type things. So it's really asking
the question of what are your specific needs or the needs of your child,
And some of that could also probably even go to like the showing this time
of year with you know, the sidewalks and driveways and things away they are
has some limited mobility issues that that could probably play in, as well as
even the time of day, you know, if they're coming out to see
something when it's too early or too late. So I'm sure there's some issues
like that as well. Correct winter always makes a challenge for everybody, whether
you're a seller or a buyer, but that's when you become very aware of
slippery conditions, steep driveways, that type of thing. From my perspective in
my years of experience, it's really assess the situation. What are their needs?
And that doesn't mean my assumption, because my assumption is probably going to
be wrong or skewed, but asking the question, like I said earlier,
what are your needs? What is it about that feature or amenity that improves
your life? And then some of the homes might not be quite there right
now, but being able to look at that and say, with this minor
modification, you could pretty easy make this, but there might be some that
you go there's probably just not going to be a way this is going to
work at all correct, And sometimes it just means approaching the builder and saying,
can we do this, And if it's early enough in the building process,
say a building a house that's are currently creating, that we can probably
have some things done. So say in the early stage of a townhouse,
we need the light switch is a little lower. Can you do this?
And if it's done early enough, then everything can be adjusted. And most
of the builders are pretty willing to work with you because they understand that people
have needs and some of that can be done when you're building. There's also
a lot of aftermarket stuff that's available. So if somebody maybe is in a
situation where now I might need some additional things in the bathroom to help or
whatever, that's all stuff that can probably be added for the most part later
as well. Can it most stuff? But some things grab handles and so
forth. If you go into a typical bathtub shower combo, the backing isn't
there those fiberglass surrounds, you know, they're they're not meant for weight.
Yeah, so the framing isn't there that you can just add grab handles wherever
you want. Nice, So sometimes we have to reach out to people in
different fields, and that's where networking with other fields is really important. And
it's good to know somebody who knows people, and Brent knows everybody so well,
not everybody. But if somebody listening does not know you, but they
would like to get to know you because they're maybe wanting to buy a home
or sell a home, what is the best way for them to connect with
you. I can be reached at six zero five three one zero zero two
ninety seven or email me at Brent Baker at kW dot com. Very nice
again. Brent Baker has been our guest today. A real estate professional in
the sux Falls area. You can find him online. His website is clients
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It was on this day, January twenty second, nineteen sixty seven.
Former Augustana College Vikings halfback Les Josephson is voted to and plays in the NFL
Pro Bowl. Josephson was a standout at Augustana After being picked up by the
Los Angeles Rams in nineteen sixty four, he'd remain with that team for ten
seasons. His best season came in nineteen sixty seven, when he rushed for
over eight hundred yards. In a career plagued by injuries, less was still
able to make himself a fixture of the Rams offense for nearly a decade.
Upon his retirement, his three thousand, four hundred and seven rushing yards put
him at third place on the Rams all time rushing leader list. Joe Soisson
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